Pete Astor: Spilt Milk (Southbound)

Graham Reid | Feb 8, 2016 | <1 min read

Pete Astor: Perfect Life

Any number of mid-level British bands and artists go past us at this
distance, often known only to music writers who either assiduously
follow the small print or stumble upon an album early on and follow
the barely visible career thereafter.

So it is with the Weather
Prophets (and the more left-field Ellis Island Sound) and their
singer-songwriter Pete Astor who here – on a home studio recordings
at his multi-instrumentalist pal James Hoare's house – offers 10
songs which walk a line between lo-fi and observational Ray Davies,
New Zealand's Matthew Bannister, a kind of British twist on country
music and the chug of a one-man Clean.

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